 | The Fear Economy: A Theory of Output, Interest, and Safe Assets Author/Editor: Ruchir Agarwal. Release Date:September, 2022 This paper presents a fear theory of the economy, based on the interplay between fear of rare disasters and the interest rate on safe assets. To do this, I study the macroeconomic consequences of more...
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| India's State-Owned Enterprises Author/Editor: Ruchir Agarwal, Elif C Arbatli Saxegaard, Lesley Fisher, Xuehui Han. Release Date:August, 2022 India's recently announced privatization strategy can facilitate a change in the composition of the public sector balance sheet toward high-return public sector investments in infrastructure and more...
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| Finance Vaccine Equity: Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic Author/Editor: Ruchir Agarwal, Tristan Reed. Release Date:May, 2022 A lack of timely financing for purchases of vaccines and other health products impeded the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on analysis of contract signature and delivery dates in more...
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| Seven Finance & Trade Lessons from COVID-19 for Future Pandemics Author/Editor: Ruchir Agarwal, Gita Gopinath. Release Date:May, 2022 Pandemics and epidemics pose risks to lives, societies, and economies, and their frequency is expected to increase as rising trade and increased human interaction with animals leads to the emergence more...
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| A Global Strategy to Manage the Long-Term Risks of COVID-19 Author/Editor: Ruchir Agarwal, Gita Gopinath, Jeremy Farrar, Richard Hatchett, Peter Sands. Release Date:April, 2022 The pandemic is not over, and the health and economic losses continue to grow. It is now evident that COVID-19 will be with us for the long term, and there are very different scenarios for how it more...
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| Climate Change in South Asia: Further Need for Mitigation and Adaptation Author/Editor: Ruchir Agarwal, Vybhavi Balasundharam, Patrick Blagrave, Eugenio M Cerutti, Ragnar Gudmundsson, Racha Mousa. Release Date:August, 2021 The South Asia region is both a large contributor to climate change and also one of the regions most vulnerable to climate change. This paper provides an overview of the region's vulnerabilities, more...
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| Why U.S. Immigration Matters for the Global Advancement of Science Author/Editor: Ruchir Agarwal, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaulé, Geoff Smith. Release Date:February, 2021 This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. more...
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| What Drives Innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D Author/Editor: Ruchir Agarwal, Patrick Gaulé. Release Date:February, 2021 To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and presents four results. We find: (1) global pharmaceutical R&D more...
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| Enabling Deep Negative Rates to Fight Recessions: A Guide Author/Editor: Ruchir Agarwal, Miles Kimball. Release Date:April, 2019 The experience of the Great Recession and its aftermath revealed that a lower bound on interest rates can be a serious obstacle for fighting recessions. However, the zero lower bound is not a law of more...
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| Invisible Geniuses: Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster? Author/Editor: Ruchir Agarwal, Patrick Gaule. Release Date:December, 2018 The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we more...
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